MiSSING YOU ALL!

Hi dolls!  This isn't your typical blog post filled with words of wisdom or inspirational quotes, but I have just been thinking a lot lately about how amazing our college experience was.  As some of you know, I had a nice, long, hungover drive (by myself) home from Vegas today and was reminiscing about the last 4 years.  I don't acknowledge how lucky we all were often enough, and I hope reading this will allow you a few minutes to just think back... 

(no seriously, do it... let yourself reminisce.  it's good for the soul)  

Hundreds of memories are flooding to my mind right now, but I am trying to actually put myself in the mindset of some of the absurd situations we were in... I'm dying.  Everyone comes to college with expectations, fears, hopes, anxieties, fantasies.. whatever, but I don't think anyone can truly picture or be ready for how much they will be molded.  Each and every one of you helped shape the person I became, and I just wanted to thank you all for that.  Whether it was a song you showed me that will forever remind me of an amazing time, or taking care of me when I probably didn't even remember it the next day and didn't have the decency to thank you... it impacted me.  Maybe it's because I'm a little high, or that I have just been trying to gain a little more of a sense of self lately, but I wanted to let you all know I was thinking about what great friends you are and what great times we have all had!  

A little update if you are no longer in San Diego and we haven't been able to chat!  I was interning for Pura Vida bracelets this summer, and they ended up offering me a full-time job so that I could stay in San Diego.  I absolutely love it, and love everything they stand for.  Griffin and Paul are geniuses and I learn something new from them each and every day, which is nice to have in a work environment.  Ari and I are moving in with Michol and Taylor Jones since our lease is up, so that will be a new change.  It's a cute house and I feel like neither of us are ever even home, so the only downfall is the actual move.  UGH. 

Hope this puts a little smile of your faces, even if ya had a rough day, and that everyone will start using this more!  So much love for you all :)

- da GOatttt 

Hermie the Worm

Whoa, I have missed you lovely ladies SO much. And while you are all doing so many different, fun, unique, and "grown up" things, I have been a Senior Counselor at Camp Menorah with some of the cutest kids in the entire world. I have officially named my Kindergarten girls: "The Pretty Committee." Their mothers are not happy with how much sassy-ness they have been bringing home from camp, oops!

I have gotten to do awesome things this summer that I would not normally do like see Cars 3D, go to the Grammy Museum right in the heart of L.A. (please go, it's incredible!), Disneyland, Go-Kart racing, and even had the honors of going to a trampoline place on Thursday where I sprained my ankle. UGH. Yes, I am writing this while my ass has been forming a massive imprint in my bed. I'm praying it gets better by Saturday (I'm NOT missing HARD Summer Fest!!! - mainly to see some of you beautiful women).

The 5th and 6th graders are my group - such an awk age, I can't even explain. But we do stuff as a whole camp a lot so it doesn't really matter. My days are spent singing silly songs, saying the "Homotzee," and playing Ga-Ga (a ball game played at every Jewish camp). I am in charge of so much though, it's insane. I work the longest hours I have ever worked in my life and I'm never NOT exhausted. I go to work and leave feeling like I had spent the whole day at 24 Hour Fitness. But this by far, (I mean I'm comparing it to hostessing) is the most rewarding job. Yeah, the kids are privileged and all, but when their parents pick them up and pull you aside to say, "my kid never stops talking about you. You have to come babysit before summer ends and you HAVE to come back next summer," is literally the most heart-warming feeling. This summer has sped by like lighting, but I'm already really attached to these kids which makes this whole moving to Israel thing even harder than it was.

Yep, I leave in 25 days. FREAKING OUT.

I love you all. Since I have left SD, I can still say there is no better women in the world :)

Listen to this! And you can download:
Pumped Up Kicks (remixed by Grouplove & Captain)

I mean.....HOW CUTE?!

xo - Alana